Gnome-pomodoro freezes on arch (gnome 3.30)

[linusheinz]

After compiling gnome-pomodoro from the 3.30 branch it freezes every time short after opening it

[linusheinz]

now it works, but there is no circle in the upper left

[afromankenobi]

Hi!

This is because probably the path gnome-pomodoro does not exists in the path /home/linus/.local/share/

I temporarily fix this issue by creating the folder with mkdir ~/.local/share/gnome-pomodoro

I'm pretty new to Vala but i'm trying to make this automagically on https://github.com/codito/gnome-pomodoro/blob/master/lib/application.vala#L274

@codito are you ok with this? i don't really know if this is the behaviour that you expect.

[codito]

@kamilprusko

[amiklosi]

@linusheinz how did you make it work?

[codito]

Does ff286e4 fix this? It is already part of 0.14.0 release.

[raxod502]

I have version 0.14.0 of gnome-pomodoro with version 3.30.2 of gnome-shell on Manjaro and I still see a freeze on launch. If I delete ~/.local/share/gnome-pomodoro first, then it recreates it with database.sqlite{,-shm,-wal}. Upon killing and relaunching I see the same behavior but with this message:

** (gnome-pomodoro:27899): CRITICAL **: 11:57:16.556: application.vala:308: Failed to migrate database: Error creating directory /home/raxod502/.local/share/gnome-pomodoro: File exists

[RuubixO]

I also have issues using on fedora 29. It will lock up if I click more than once or two. It's menu on the gnome bar will not show.

[raxod502]

It's not clear to me exactly what I did to make gnome-pomodoro work, but at some point it started working. Some combination of restarting and reinstalling and deleting the database.

[linusheinz]

This seems to be an issue on all relatively up to date distros and the same as #390.
Is this project actively maintained ? Because the issue persisted for the last couple of months.

[psukys]

@RuubixO downgrading to gnome-shell-extension-pomodoro-0.13.4-5.fc29 makes it work (even though, as expected, new features are missing)

[FelixSchwarz]

downgrading to gnome-shell-extension-pomodoro-0.13.4-5.fc29 makes it work (even though, as expected, new features are missing)

Here is my workaround for Fedora:

• Install an old version of gnome-pomodoro (sudo dnf downgrade gnome-shell-extension-pomodoro-0.13.4-5.fc29)
• start the application ($ gnome-pomodoro)
• update the application to 0.14.0 (sudo dnf update)
• log out from gnome shell
• after the next login gnome-pomodoro should work fine

I'm not sure what is causing this and where the state is stored exactly but somehow the old version initializes something and it continues to work afterwards.

[kiview]

I'm seeing a similar problem on Fedora 29.

Edit:
Just wanted to add, that it seems to work fine after a gnome-shell restart.

[LenzGr]

FWIW, I installed gnome-shell-extension-pomodoro-1:0.14.0-3.fc29.x86_64 from the Fedora 29 repository and am unable to use it because it freezes. Restarting gnome-shell didn't help in my case. How can we provide more details to get this resolved?

[davidCarlos]

Apparently it's a permition problem. If I run gnome-pomodoro with sudo it works.

[mcnelson]

Can't quite get it working for me. Freezing problem too. Tried using sudo but it complains about the display. Tried passing in --display=:0.0 and --display=:0 and still doesn't like it. Fedora 30.

[pabloubal]

Apparently it's a permition problem. If I run gnome-pomodoro with sudo it works.

Just made it work with sudo. Thanks @davidCarlos, I didn't event think about sudoing it.
Is there a workaround for avoiding the use of sudo?

[jwilger]

"This application seems to have bugs, and I can't launch it. Let me just try running it with sudo..."

Really? Don't ever do this, folks. That's like security 101 level material right there.

[tuxedotje]

Works fine on Fedora 32 beta Freezes on Fedora 31 WHY?
Solution is simple::
Restart your computer after install.
Just restart your computer after install, and do CTRL-ALT-P
works

[iootaa]

It also freezes with Debian 10 + gnome-shell 3.30.2-11~deb10u1.0tails1

Here is what appears in the terminal when I launch gnome-pomodoro

application.vala:308: Failed to migrate database: Erreur lors de la création du répertoire /home/amnesia/.local/share/gnome-pomodoro : Le fichier existe

I had to restart gnome-shell with

• Ctrl + Alt + F3
• pkill gnome-shell

Then it works fine (except the stats but that's another problem)

[harrysolorzano]

Solution, After installing it, you have to restart the system.

[iootaa]

Glad to hear that @harrysolorzano ! But this solution is not possible for Live OS like Tails: https://tails.boum.org

[iootaa]

A workaround: start with gnome-pomodoro --no-default-window and use it from the top-bar icon (on the top-right corner of the screen)

[ClaudioCavalcanteVas]

Works fine on Fedora 32 beta Freezes on Fedora 31 WHY?
Solution is simple::
Restart your computer after install.
Just restart your computer after install, and do CTRL-ALT-P
works

it works for me after restart my computer

[c7hm4r]

gnome-pomodoro freezes still 3s after start.

• Fedora 35; BTRFS; clean user account
• logging out and in again does not help
• nothing is shown on STDOUT/-ERR

[OlgaMaciaszek]

Same here. Restart worked for me on an earlier version of Fedora, and possibly the Pomodoro app. I'm setting up a new machine and restarting does not help things anymore. Fedora 35.

[rbarte]

The same here on Fedora 35 and gnome-pomodoro 0.20.0. Restart doesn't help.